The Om 2008.8 and Om 2007.2 Openmoko distributions have been designed to bring up an on-screen keyboard which supplies keystroke information to applications. However, this requires the cooperation of the application, which is a problem for software designed with another X11 based phone stack in mind, or software which has been quickly ported from Linux desktop systems, because it will never bring up a keyboard for (possibly important) keystroke information. It is also possible that the keyboard could be brought or remain up by accident when you don't want it there, or even software specifically designed with this functionality in mind may occasionally fail or become confused when an on screen keyboard is supposed to be available.

Building a custom package

If that doesn't work, follow the instructions on building Om 2008.8 from source. Unpack the source for the package 'illume-theme', edit its edc file using the same method described above, and then finish building the ipk. You should be able to install this ipk, overiding the previous configuration.

Upgrading

If you upgrade, such as with opkg upgrade, you may have to perform the modification again.

In base-image (testing)

The openmoko-base-image installs both illume and asu themes. You can change theme by editing E's profile. To get QWERTY and the wrench back in base-image, you have use the illume theme. So there are 3 steps to do:

The Om 2008.8 and Om 2007.2 Openmoko distributions have been designed to bring up an on-screen keyboard which supplies keystroke information to applications. However, this requires the cooperation of the application, which is a problem for software designed with another X11 based phone stack in mind, or software which has been quickly ported from Linux desktop systems, because it will never bring up a keyboard for (possibly important) keystroke information. It is also possible that the keyboard could be brought or remain up by accident when you don't want it there, or even software specifically designed with this functionality in mind may occasionally fail or become confused when an on screen keyboard is supposed to be available.

Building a custom package

If that doesn't work, follow the instructions on building Om 2008.8 from source. Unpack the source for the package 'illume-theme', edit its edc file using the same method described above, and then finish building the ipk. You should be able to install this ipk, overiding the previous configuration.

Upgrading

If you upgrade, such as with opkg upgrade, you may have to perform the modification again.

In base-image (testing)

The openmoko-base-image installs both illume and asu themes. You can change theme by editing E's profile. To get QWERTY and the wrench back in base-image, you have use the illume theme. So there are 3 steps to do: